Thank you, footnoteMaven for the opportunity to be a part of the Weekend with Shades series. Penny Dreadful has been having a great deal of fun discovering the stories behind your photographs.If you have been following Penny Dreadful on Twitter you know that Miss Dreadful had a frightening … [Read more...]
Monthly Melodrama from Penny Dreadful at Shades of the Departed
Hold on to your hats, dear Readers, The Family Curator, will be writing a new monthly column at Shades of the Departed beginning this weekend, Saturday, March 7 under the nom de plume of her alter ego, Penelope Dreadful.Close your eyes and imagine a time when mustachioed villains lurked around every … [Read more...]
Tech Tuesday: Audiobooks for Lean Times
As a long-time audiobook lover I was excited to discover that my public library now offers an extensive selection of digital spoken-word texts free for downloading. I say that I "was" excited. That is, when I discovered that the books are published in a non-iPod compatible format I lost some of my … [Read more...]
Tech Tuesday: Organizing Data with CensusMate
Yesterday, I mentioned my quest for Arline's great-grandfather Henry M. Winsor. I could easily find the Union veteran after 1850, but I could not find Henry's home in the years before the 1850 census.Then I found CensusMate, a handy census utility by John L. Haynes that stacks data in a grid for … [Read more...]
Where’s Henry M.?
We have a problem. Arline's great-grandfather, Henry M. Winsor was orphaned in 1827. After 1850 I know that he joined the Union Army, mustered out, and relocated his family to Kansas. Where was he living between 1827 and 1850? I found 29 year old Henry and his growing family in the 1850 census … [Read more...]
Tech Tuesday: Notetaking and Blogging with ScribeFire
This week I have been using the ScribeFire Firefox plug-in for notetaking and blogging. I have been searching for a stand-alone application that I could use offline on my laptop, so I first bypassed ScribeFire. It kept popping up in searches and reviews, however, so I went back for a second … [Read more...]
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